Patents by Inventor Christian Bauer

Christian Bauer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20130341773
    Abstract: The invention relates to a component and a method for producing said component. The component comprises a substrate (S), a chip (CH), a frame (MF), which is connected to the substrate (S) and on which the chip (CH) bears. A metallic closure layer (ML) encompasses the frame (MF), the substrate (S) and the chip (CH) such that a volume enclosed by the substrate (S), the chip (CH) and the frame (MF) is hermetically sealed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Christian Bauer, Hans Krüger, Jürgen Portmann, Alois Stelzl
  • Publication number: 20130337954
    Abstract: A tensioning device for a continuous drive element includes a housing, a tensioning piston movably guided in the housing, and a pressure chamber for hydraulic fluid formed between the housing and the tensioning piston, wherein the tensioning piston comprises a vent opening, and a vent channel between the pressure chamber and the vent opening, formed by assembling at least two vent elements, wherein in the one vent element, in the contact surface to the second vent element, separate partial areas of the vent channel are formed by molded groove sections which are connected to each other by transfer grooves molded in the second vent element in the contact surface to the first vent element, such that sections of a main portion of the cross-section of flow of the vent channel are arranged on one side, and sections are arranged on another side of a plane spanned by the contact surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: IWIS MOTORSYSTEME GMBH & CO., KG
    Inventors: Christian Bauer, Tobias Schmid
  • Patent number: 8558356
    Abstract: A stable electrical component includes a carrier substrate and a chip (2) mounted thereon. The component has a reactance element and a supporting element, which are at least partly arranged between the carrier substrate and the chip. The reactance element is at least partly realized by means of at least one conductor track. The reactance element includes a coil, a capacitor or a transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Juergen Kiwitt, Maximilian Pitschi, Christian Bauer, Robert Koch
  • Publication number: 20130214405
    Abstract: A component includes a substrate, a chip and a frame. The frame is bonded to the substrate and the chip rests on the frame. A sealing layer on parts of the frame and the chip is designed to hermetically seal a volume enclosed by the substrate, the chip and the metal frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Christian Bauer, Hans Krueger, Juergen Portmann, Alois Stelzl
  • Publication number: 20130203534
    Abstract: A tensioning system with restoring action for tensioning a flexible drive means is provided, in particular a drive chain of an internal combustion engine, composed of a tensioning apparatus and a restoring device. The tensioning apparatus comprises a housing, a tensioning piston which is guided in a movable manner in the housing and which has a detent profiling, and a detent hook for the stepped adjustment of the working range of the tensioning piston, wherein the detent hook has a clamping region for engaging into the detent profiling in the tensioning piston. Here, a retraction stop is provided at the housing, at which retraction stop, in an abutting state of the detent hook, a further retraction movement of the tensioning piston into the housing is prevented by virtue of the clamping region being clamped on the detent profiling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: IWIS MOTORSYSTEME GMBH & CO., KG
    Inventors: Tobias Schmid, Christian Bauer, Renzo Perissinotto
  • Patent number: 8421453
    Abstract: A magnetic field array for measuring spatial components of a magnetic field is proposed, in which with at least one magnetic field sensor utilizing the XMR effect in a magnetoresistive film structure, a further component, perpendicular or nonparallel to the film structure of the magnetic field to be detected, is detectable in that at least one flux concentrator is disposed above the film structure in such a way that the magnetic field lines in the peripheral regions of the flux concentrator are deflectable in such a way that there, the field lines embody a horizontal component of the magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Christian Bauer
  • Patent number: 8404516
    Abstract: A carrier substrate has a mounting location with a number of electrical connection pads on a top side and external contacts connected thereto on an underside. A metal frame encloses the connection pads of the mounting location. A MEMS chip has electrical contacts on an underside. The MEMS chip is placed on the mounting location of the carrier substrate in such a way that the MEMS chip is seated with an edge region of its underside on the metal frame. Using a flip-chip process, the electrical contacts of the MEMS chip are connected to the connection pads of the carrier substrate by means of bumps the metal frame is connected to the MEMS chip such that a closed cavity is formed between MEMS chip and carrier substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Christian Bauer, Gregor Feiertag, Hans Krueger, Alois Stelzl
  • Patent number: 8323136
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a tensioning rail for a chain drive, in particular a timing chain drive of an internal combustion engine, comprising a base body (11) and a pressure body (1) connected to the base body which provides a pressing area (2) for pressing a chain tensioner, wherein a pressing surface (4) of the pressure body (1) which faces the chain tensioner during use is formed with a channel device (5). The invention also relates to a tensioning device for an endless drive element, in particular a timing chain of an internal combustion engine, comprising a tensioning rail which can be pushed on the endless drive element having a base body (11) and a pressure body (1) which can be connected to the base body (11) and which provides a pressing area, and having a chain tensioner which presses on the pressing area (2) of the pressure body (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: IWIS Motorsysteme GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Dag Heinrich, Christian Bauer, Markus Aurnhammer, Renzo Perissinotto
  • Patent number: 8262521
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tensioner assembly for a traction medium drive, specifically a chain drive, with at least two traction medium wheels and a flexible traction medium, comprising a tensioning rail which can be pressed against the traction medium by means of a tensioning device, wherein the tensioning rail is applied against at least one sliding guide and can be displaced along the at least one sliding guide by means of the tensioning device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: iwis motorsysteme GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christian Bauer, Heiner Hegering
  • Publication number: 20120152690
    Abstract: The invention relates to a load torque lock (1) comprising a sling element (12) that frictionally interacts with a brake component (13) for blocking a torque, and a drive wheel (14) that is coupled in a torque transferring manner to a carrier (15; 15a) having at least one contact area (25) to the sling element (12) and engaging axially in the drive wheel (14), by means of which a torque to be blocked can be initiated in the sling element (12). According to the invention, the carrier (15; 15a) has means for reducing the bending tension in the at least one contact region (25).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Mohamed Mili, Tarek Mili, Christian Bauer, Hans-Peter Dommsch, Peter Bohr, Thomas Holzer, Holger Thoene
  • Patent number: 8120351
    Abstract: A magnetic sensor arrangement (1), having magnetically sensitive sensor elements (7, 8) whose electrical properties are changeable as a function of a magnetic field that a moving, passive transmitter element (11) is able to influence. The magnetic sensor arrangement (1) has two sensor elements (7, 8) in a gradiometer arrangement that are each respectively associated with one of two magnetic regions (4, 5) of a permanent magnet embodied in the form of a gap magnet (2; 20; 23), which regions are spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance (sa). The regions (4, 5) and the gap magnet (2; 20; 23)—in terms of the for example wedge-shaped embodiment, the dimensions (h, b, t), the gap width (sa), the gap depth (st), and their positions in relation to the sensor elements (7, 8)—are situated so as to minimize the offset of the output signal of the sensor elements (7, 8) in the gradiometer arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rasmus Rettig, Christian Bauer, Birgit Vogelgesang
  • Publication number: 20120040790
    Abstract: A tensioning apparatus or device for a flexible driving means, particularly a drive chain for an internal combustion engine, comprises a housing, a tensioning piston movably guided in said housing and an adjusting or regulating means for gradually adjusting the working stroke of the tensioning piston. The adjusting means comprises a locking bracket and an appertaining locking profile at the tensioning piston, two arch-shaped clamping sections of said locking bracket being engageable with said locking profile, and a resilient spring portion with a torsional area combining the clamping sections in spring-resilient manner. In a preferred embodiment, the locking bracket comprises a U-shaped section with a portion angled towards the housing wall and forming the torsional area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: IWIS MOTORSYSTEME GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Renzo Perissinotto, Tobias Schmid, Christian Bauer
  • Patent number: 8110962
    Abstract: A MEMS component includes a chip that has a rear side having a low roughness of less than one tenth of the wavelength at the center frequency of an acoustic wave propagating in the component. Metallic structures for scattering bulk acoustic waves are provided on the rear side of the chip and a material of the metallic structures is acoustically matched to a material of the chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Epcos AG
    Inventors: Christian Bauer, Hans Krueger, Werner Ruile, Alois Stelzl
  • Publication number: 20110114355
    Abstract: Frames (3) applied on a wafer (1) are leveled and covered with a covering film, such that gas-tight housings are formed for component structures (5), in particular for filter or MEMS structures. Inner columns (4) can be provided for supporting the housing and for the ground connection; outer columns (4) can be provided for the electrical connection and are connected to the component structures by means of conductor tracks (6) that are electrically insulated from the frames (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Christian Bauer, Hans Krueger, Juergen Portmann, Alois Stelzl
  • Patent number: 7927020
    Abstract: A decoupling device for the bearing arrangement of a shaft carried in a housing, in particular a shaft of a belt-driven conical-pulley transmission with a chain that functions as the belt. The decoupling device includes an outer bearing ring configured with a circularly cylindrical outer surface and within which the shaft is mounted, and an inner surface of a housing that encloses the bearing ring outer surface. At least one radial ondular washer is arranged between the bearing ring outer surface and the housing inner surface, which allows a limited relative radial movement between the housing inner surface and the bearing ring outer surface by elastic deformation of the washer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: LuK Lamellen und Kupplungsbau Betelligungs KG
    Inventors: Hartmut Faust, Oswald Friedmann, André Linnenbrügger, Ronald Glas, Christian Bauer, Hans-Walter Wodtke
  • Publication number: 20110045945
    Abstract: A component with inner teeth (3) and outer teeth (6). The component (7) comprising a basic body (2) provided with the inner teeth (3) and a sheet component (5) provided with the outer teeth (6). The sheet component (5) is connected to the basic body (2), during the manufacturing process, by positive interlock in both the tangential and radial directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Tobias Buechner, Christian Bauer, Wolfgang Mueller, Peter Hoehne, Klemens Adamski, Martin Meyer
  • Publication number: 20100148285
    Abstract: A MEMS component includes a chip that has a rear side having a low roughness of less than one tenth of the wavelength at the center frequency of an acoustic wave propagating in the component. Metallic structures for scattering bulk acoustic waves are provided on the rear side of the chip and a material of the metallic structures is acoustically matched to a material of the chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Inventors: Christian Bauer, Hans Krueger, Werner Ruile, Alois Stelzl
  • Publication number: 20100127377
    Abstract: A carrier substrate has a mounting location with a number of electrical connection pads on a top side and external contacts connected thereto on an underside. A metal frame encloses the connection pads of the mounting location. A MEMS chip has electrical contacts on an underside. The MEMS chip is placed on the mounting location of the carrier substrate in such a way that the MEMS chip is seated with an edge region of its underside on the metal frame. Using a flip-chip process, the electrical contacts of the MEMS chip are connected to the connection pads of the carrier substrate by means of bumps the metal frame is connected to the MEMS chip such that a closed cavity is formed between MEMS chip and carrier substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventors: Christian Bauer, Gregor Feiertag, Hans Krueger, Alois Stelzl
  • Publication number: 20100091473
    Abstract: A stable electrical component includes a carrier substrate and a chip (2) mounted thereon. The component has a reactance element and a supporting element, which are at least partly arranged between the carrier substrate and the chip. The reactance element is at least partly realized by means of at least one conductor track. The reactance element includes a coil, a capacitor or a transmission line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Inventors: Juergen Kiwitt, Maximilian Pitschi, Christian Bauer, Robert Koch
  • Publication number: 20100072992
    Abstract: A magnetic field array for measuring spatial components of a magnetic field is proposed, in which with at least one magnetic field sensor utilizing the XMR effect in a magnetoresistive film structure, a further component, perpendicular or nonparallel to the film structure of the magnetic field to be detected, is detectable in that at least one flux concentrator is disposed above the film structure in such a way that the magnetic field lines in the peripheral regions of the flux concentrator are deflectable in such a way that there, the field lines embody a horizontal component of the magnetic field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Inventor: Christian BAUER